Latest / Fake Doctors, Real Friends with Zach and Donald / 2023: My Favorite Ranch with Clare Staples
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Hi, guys, there he is Donald. You'll be very happy
- 0:03Speaker 1: to know that I don't have my sound effects machine,
- 0:05Speaker 1: so any sound effects drops that the audience likes, I
- 0:08Speaker 1: will be doing live.
- 0:10Speaker 2: This is the best day ever. Oh my god, what
- 0:12Speaker 2: just happened? People? Everyone? Today is the best day ever.
- 0:18Speaker 1: Because I don't have the sound effects machine.
- 0:20Speaker 2: Yes, but none of that, none of that.
- 0:23Speaker 1: I love you, ship, sound listen. I'm gonna do them live.
- 0:26Speaker 1: I just want the audience hear. What you're trying to
- 0:30Speaker 1: get into a day is soon. What you're trying to.
- 0:33Speaker 3: Do, that's the only one that you can do that's
- 0:35Speaker 3: actually gonna sound authentic.
- 0:37Speaker 2: Everyone else you don't sound like Meal tech.
- 0:44Speaker 1: Forever Wu Tang forever? What Wo tang forever?
- 0:50Speaker 2: It doesn't work. I miss I missed you too. This
- 0:55Speaker 2: has been a crazy, crazy, crazy summer. Holy Ship.
- 1:00Speaker 1: Yes, it's very bizarre time in our town because nobody
- 1:05Speaker 1: can work.
- 1:07Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's hot as balls outside.
- 1:10Speaker 1: Yes, nobody can work and it's hot as balls outside.
- 1:14Speaker 2: This is what I imagine hell is like, hot and workless,
- 1:20Speaker 2: hot and workless.
- 1:22Speaker 1: Well, that just shows that you love your work too,
- 1:24Speaker 1: because a lot of people would imagine hell would be
- 1:30Speaker 1: hot and work full. You know what I mean?
- 1:34Speaker 2: Well, not if you love what you do.
- 1:35Speaker 1: Yeah, you love what you do.
- 1:37Speaker 3: I'm one of the very few people in the world
- 1:40Speaker 3: that gets to do what he's always wanted to do.
- 1:44Speaker 1: Yes, that's probably true, Donald, You're one of an elite
- 1:47Speaker 1: group of people that actually gets to do what they
- 1:50Speaker 1: love to do. Joel and Daniel too.
- 1:55Speaker 2: I don't know how they feel about this job.
- 2:00Speaker 1: Okay, no, but Donald's right. Daniel might be like, I
- 2:02Speaker 1: will kill them one day.
- 2:06Speaker 2: If anybody got to hear what you're trying to get
- 2:08Speaker 2: into a day shune.
- 2:09Speaker 1: One more fucking time.
- 2:10Speaker 2: I have to listen to their voices even after the show.
- 2:15Speaker 1: Was Yeah, because Daniel has to edit the show, so
- 2:17Speaker 1: for all we know, he's up late, and I'd be like, oh.
- 2:19Speaker 2: Soon soon, Donald, if you don't get your mic right.
- 2:24Speaker 1: Yes, if he reads that ad wrong, one more fucking time,
- 2:28Speaker 1: I'll blow. Yeah. Daniel will be in a visa being like.
- 2:37Speaker 2: You got to show me off.
- 2:41Speaker 1: Daniel, is that your dream? To be a well paid
- 2:43Speaker 1: DJ in a viza on drugs?
- 2:48Speaker 2: It was for a little bit. It was for a
- 2:50Speaker 2: little bit.
- 2:51Speaker 4: I'm not gonna lie though, I do love this job
- 2:53Speaker 4: and I love having a real home life. Being gone
- 2:57Speaker 4: every weekend and not having like friends to hang out
- 2:59Speaker 4: with during the week is tough.
- 3:03Speaker 2: So what money DJ in man? That's for damn sure.
- 3:06Speaker 4: Hell no, I wish.
- 3:10Speaker 1: But he's not talking. I will never reached and he could,
- 3:13Speaker 1: of course if he tried. I don't know, but he never.
- 3:16Speaker 1: He never reached the he never reached the private jet
- 3:19Speaker 1: DJ status.
- 3:20Speaker 4: I assume not not quite now. It was a long
- 3:23Speaker 4: road and there are many choices I may have changed
- 3:26Speaker 4: along the way. However, I'm very proud of that time
- 3:28Speaker 4: in my life and I'm happy where I am now.
- 3:30Speaker 4: So no regrets.
- 3:31Speaker 1: You know I met and I hung out with the
- 3:33Speaker 1: dj Z.
- 3:34Speaker 2: Do you know him?
- 3:34Speaker 1: No, Anton, I do know Anton. Anton is paid. Yes,
- 3:38Speaker 1: he's he thinks. So if I made a song like Clarity,
- 3:42Speaker 1: then yes.
- 3:42Speaker 2: I say, you are a piece.
- 3:46Speaker 1: He's so talented. Is he super talented? I don't. I
- 3:50Speaker 1: don't listen to that music. So is he super good?
- 3:52Speaker 1: He must be, because rules he is super talented. He's
- 3:58Speaker 1: an amazing musician, like he was a classically trade pianist.
- 4:01Speaker 3: So didn't watch McCalla write that song? Though he didn't
- 4:04Speaker 3: write that song, didn't Hillary Duff husband wrote that.
- 4:07Speaker 4: Song the lyrics or the music the lyrics, Yeah, yeah,
- 4:12Speaker 4: for sure it is.
- 4:14Speaker 1: It is his song.
- 4:15Speaker 4: I can't remember the name of the singer, but she's
- 4:16Speaker 4: also very talented. But I mean he wrote the music
- 4:19Speaker 4: part of it. So that's the part that I give
- 4:21Speaker 4: him those most credit for. He also works with, I mean,
- 4:23Speaker 4: a bunch of talented writers. He's brought up so many people.
- 4:26Speaker 4: I got nothing but respect for that.
- 4:27Speaker 1: Oh that's nice to hear. He was a very he's
- 4:29Speaker 1: a very nice guy. I just met him a few
- 4:31Speaker 1: times and he's, uh, he's super nice. I just I
- 4:36Speaker 1: also happened to see his house, so I was like,
- 4:38Speaker 1: damn anton.
- 4:41Speaker 2: Man's question, do you have a movie theater?
- 4:45Speaker 1: He just had one of those like I'm a rich DJ.
- 4:47Speaker 1: Holy shit houses?
- 4:48Speaker 2: Yeah, Like did he have a tennis court?
- 4:51Speaker 1: I didn't like survey the grounds. Donald. I was just
- 4:53Speaker 1: there for a cocktail party and it was like a
- 4:55Speaker 1: wow house and I was like, Wow, this is one
- 4:58Speaker 1: of those I don't know his music.
- 4:59Speaker 2: Yeah, bake grass are real grass?
- 5:03Speaker 1: Is that how you determine wealth?
- 5:05Speaker 3: I'm just saying some people determine wealth whether they have
- 5:07Speaker 3: a swing in a cement that's Casey.
- 5:11Speaker 1: You got to tell that story.
- 5:12Speaker 2: Now.
- 5:12Speaker 1: You can't leave the audience curious about that.
- 5:14Speaker 2: My wife told us that when she was growing up.
- 5:20Speaker 1: Are you going to tell this wright or do I
- 5:21Speaker 1: need to take over?
- 5:22Speaker 2: I'm going to tell her wrong. You need to take over, dude.
- 5:24Speaker 1: I need to take over Donald's wife's story just because
- 5:27Speaker 1: Donald's too high to remembory.
- 5:28Speaker 2: No, it's so long ago.
- 5:30Speaker 1: She was talking about how in Waco, Texas, and this
- 5:33Speaker 1: was many years.
- 5:33Speaker 2: Ago, well Marlin, Texas.
- 5:35Speaker 1: Marlin, Texas, that her grandmother had a really nice house
- 5:40Speaker 1: for very little money. And she and this is Casey
- 5:42Speaker 1: said this without any trying to joke at all. She
- 5:44Speaker 1: was like, y'all, she got this house for thirty thousand
- 5:47Speaker 1: dollars and this house was nice, y'all. I mean it
- 5:49Speaker 1: had a swing set in the seaman.
- 5:55Speaker 5: Hell. Yeah.
- 5:57Speaker 1: She wasn't trying to be funny. She was like, that
- 5:59Speaker 1: was one of the nice features of the house was
- 6:01Speaker 1: that the swing set was.
- 6:02Speaker 3: Imbedded into the dirt.
- 6:06Speaker 1: It wasn't one of those ones where when you swing
- 6:07Speaker 1: hard it comes up.
- 6:08Speaker 2: No no, no, no, there's no chance of the swing.
- 6:11Speaker 1: This fucker was in.
- 6:12Speaker 2: It was locked up in that. But dude was joking,
- 6:17Speaker 2: He's going off to ods.
- 6:19Speaker 1: But Donald, do you remember Casey wasn't joking. She wasn't
- 6:22Speaker 1: trying to be funny. She was like being earnest. She
- 6:24Speaker 1: was like, y'all it was nice, like the swing set
- 6:27Speaker 1: was in the semen.
- 6:28Speaker 2: Yeah, she was bragging y'all. Oh no, it was a
- 6:34Speaker 2: nice house.
- 6:34Speaker 1: Should we talk about going to te Swift because we
- 6:36Speaker 1: had a great mandate.
- 6:39Speaker 2: Listen that Te Swift? Cody was hate.
- 6:44Speaker 1: Yeah, well, Cody, Cody, Cody's Cody's not a fan. We
- 6:47Speaker 1: don't listen. Need to listen to Cody. Cody's Cody's all
- 6:50Speaker 1: in on beyond.
- 6:50Speaker 3: We should listen to Cody because he gets you into
- 6:52Speaker 3: shape and everything like that.
- 6:53Speaker 1: But no, but I mean he's not a te Swift fan,
- 6:56Speaker 1: and Donald and I are. And we had a really
- 6:59Speaker 1: nice date. We had a great night.
- 7:02Speaker 3: I mean, hanging out with the people that we hung
- 7:07Speaker 3: out made it even more special though. Getting again, Yeah,
- 7:12Speaker 3: get to see getting to see bree.
- 7:14Speaker 1: Uh and Lupin and Young Sarah and Sarah Paulson. It's
- 7:20Speaker 1: quite the crew.
- 7:21Speaker 6: Oh my gosh, wait a minute. I have like three
- 7:23Speaker 6: friends who've met Lapita and they said, she literally stole
- 7:25Speaker 6: their breath. She's the most beautiful woman. Oh my god.
- 7:32Speaker 1: Donald and I were like, we're like, you know, I
- 7:35Speaker 1: know Sarah Paulson, we know Elizabeth Banks, you know I've
- 7:37Speaker 1: met Brie Larson. We were we were in the Costa
- 7:39Speaker 1: Egos shout out to cost Egos for letting us watch
- 7:42Speaker 1: in the box. But anyway, Donald and I were like,
- 7:46Speaker 1: you know, we know these these those gals. And then
- 7:48Speaker 1: we saw and Amy Adams was there and I know her.
- 7:52Speaker 1: And then but then Donald and I both saw Lupina
- 7:54Speaker 1: and Young. We both just stopped in our tracks and
- 7:56Speaker 1: we're like, our jaws dropped. She's so pretty, dude, and
- 8:00Speaker 1: they're all beautiful. I just meant we hadn't met her before.
- 8:02Speaker 1: In our start, in our Star sightings.
- 8:04Speaker 2: We were surrounded by nothing but beautiful women.
- 8:08Speaker 1: Other than Darren Chris, and other than Darren Chris, we
- 8:10Speaker 1: were the only guys that funny.
- 8:12Speaker 3: And freaking like Ashley Tisdale came up in there, like
- 8:15Speaker 3: when we had a crew.
- 8:16Speaker 1: And there was that famous TikTok girl's sister. I don't
- 8:21Speaker 1: know TikTok dancers, but.
- 8:24Speaker 2: Remember her, the one that was on Dancing with the stars.
- 8:26Speaker 1: There was a reality show about her family, the Damelio.
- 8:29Speaker 1: Yeahmilio's the older sister. Donald and I may have been
- 8:34Speaker 1: the only two straight men not accompanying a child there
- 8:39Speaker 1: in the all of Sofi Stadium. That is how I felt,
- 8:42Speaker 1: as well, Oh do you go? I did? It was great,
- 8:45Speaker 1: wasn't it? Dude? It was so incredible.
- 8:48Speaker 4: Just the fact that she can go for three and
- 8:49Speaker 4: a half hours like that is mind blowing to me.
- 8:52Speaker 4: I was just standing there dancing and singing, sure, but
- 8:55Speaker 4: like she is performing, singing, bantering for three and a
- 8:59Speaker 4: half hours. That conditioning is unparalleled. She is such an
- 9:02Speaker 4: impressive performer.
- 9:04Speaker 3: Man, she fucked up traffic in Hollywood. Man, I was
- 9:06Speaker 3: all gonna say, how about that?
- 9:07Speaker 2: Look, it was cool. The first night. I was like, oh, man,
- 9:10Speaker 2: Taylor is in town. This is dope.
- 9:12Speaker 3: Zach's taking me and we had a great time. I sang,
- 9:15Speaker 3: I did all of that stuff. But for the next
- 9:17Speaker 3: six days, traffic in Los Angeles was shit.
- 9:22Speaker 2: Donald was all because of Taylor.
- 9:25Speaker 1: Sweet I only I were loving the show. But I
- 9:26Speaker 1: looked at him like, because we were starting to time out,
- 9:29Speaker 1: we knew how long the show was, and I was like,
- 9:30Speaker 1: I want you to look at all these people, seventy
- 9:32Speaker 1: thousand people. I'm like, all these people are going to
- 9:35Speaker 1: try and leave the same time, right, So, Donald, we're
- 9:39Speaker 1: gonna miss some final tailor.
- 9:41Speaker 2: Tracks, right, we missed all of that shit. We was like,
- 9:45Speaker 2: that's wrap.
- 9:46Speaker 1: We love Taylor, but we don't love two hours of
- 9:48Speaker 1: traffic tailor.
- 9:49Speaker 2: Now. No, no, no, no. I can't sit in the parking
- 9:51Speaker 2: lot for two no.
- 9:51Speaker 1: I would have lost my mind. I would have lost
- 9:53Speaker 1: my mind. I saw the line for Uber and I
- 9:56Speaker 1: was like, there's no way it could not be caught dead.
- 9:59Speaker 1: And that least when and were like these big stars
- 10:01Speaker 1: like Lupida and Sarah Paulsen, they were disappearing for like
- 10:04Speaker 1: an hour and you're like, where'd they go? And they
- 10:06Speaker 1: would come back. They had gotten on the merch line.
- 10:09Speaker 1: They had been on the line for merch. I was
- 10:14Speaker 1: like Donald, I was like, Donald, do you need to go?
- 10:16Speaker 1: The cool thing to do would be for you to
- 10:18Speaker 1: come home with one of those sweatshirts for Casey And
- 10:20Speaker 1: he's like, oh, hell no.
- 10:22Speaker 3: The only way I'm getting one of them things with
- 10:24Speaker 3: Casey is if, like if Lupita's like, would you like
- 10:26Speaker 3: a sweatshirt?
- 10:28Speaker 1: You were hoping that Lapita was going to be like
- 10:29Speaker 1: I was free.
- 10:31Speaker 2: Lars, and I was like, Brie, did you get anything
- 10:34Speaker 2: from me?
- 10:34Speaker 1: You were hoping that Lupite and Young was going to
- 10:36Speaker 1: be like Donald, I googled your wife's sizes and here's That's.
- 10:43Speaker 3: How good this freaking party was. That it wasn't just
- 10:46Speaker 3: a concert. It was a party, like we were hanging
- 10:48Speaker 3: out with some really awesome people who really liked Taylor Swept.
- 10:54Speaker 2: That was the other thing.
- 10:55Speaker 3: It was amazing that that all of these people really
- 10:58Speaker 3: really we weren't there just because it was the Casamigo Suite,
- 11:02Speaker 3: like that's the perk.
- 11:04Speaker 2: That was one of the perks.
- 11:05Speaker 3: Everybody who was there was a genuine Taylor Swift fan
- 11:09Speaker 3: and knew all the lyrics.
- 11:10Speaker 1: And we didn't know. We didn't know Donald and I
- 11:12Speaker 1: knew a fraction of the songs because I think, I well,
- 11:16Speaker 1: I really I like Taylor a lot. But my I
- 11:19Speaker 1: was my favorite album is Folklore because she made an
- 11:22Speaker 1: album with the National So it was like, wow, that's
- 11:25Speaker 1: that's the most Taylor kind of music that can be.
- 11:27Speaker 1: I love a lot of the pop hits, don't get
- 11:28Speaker 1: me wrong, but for me, that's the album that that
- 11:32Speaker 1: I responded to most. So there were so many songs
- 11:34Speaker 1: that were played, but I didn't I didn't even know.
- 11:37Speaker 3: Oh that shit was there's maybe like three songs, four
- 11:42Speaker 3: songs of the Whole Night that I was like, oh,
- 11:43Speaker 3: I don't know this one.
- 11:44Speaker 1: I didn't know the era when she came out like
- 11:46Speaker 1: in the Princess dress, like that kind of music over
- 11:50Speaker 1: speak now. Yeah, yeah, I don't know the song.
- 11:53Speaker 2: No.
- 12:00Speaker 4: Uh, that is an album I'm honestly least familiar with.
- 12:03Speaker 4: I believe that is her third album.
- 12:05Speaker 1: And the country something the Princess sparks.
- 12:09Speaker 4: Oh that's what dear John mean, that's means, Yeah, I
- 12:13Speaker 4: don't know that ship.
- 12:14Speaker 1: Yeah, but we like nineteen eighty nine and we like,
- 12:18Speaker 1: what's the reputation that.
- 12:20Speaker 2: Oh that shit, what's the one where what's the one
- 12:22Speaker 2: where she has.
- 12:23Speaker 1: The midnight hat over her face? But that was that
- 12:27Speaker 1: was red.
- 12:28Speaker 2: Yeah, I know that. Yeah, I know all that.
- 12:29Speaker 1: The dancers were incredible.
- 12:32Speaker 3: Let's keep it one hundred, all right, let's be on
- 12:35Speaker 3: Taylor ain't no dancer. Let's be one hundred about it all.
- 12:38Speaker 1: She's a great for me, It's donald.
- 12:43Speaker 2: But I'm telling you right now, none of the all
- 12:45Speaker 2: y'all be cracking me up with the These motherfuckers can dance.
- 12:48Speaker 3: They ass off and then not pay attention to the
- 12:51Speaker 3: fact about that there's a Beyonce out there.
- 12:54Speaker 2: Come on, man, come on, buddy, there's a Come on buddy.
- 12:58Speaker 2: Let's keep it one hundred. Taylor is a great performer
- 13:02Speaker 2: and she has a great strut that she does. I'm
- 13:06Speaker 2: gonna keep it one hundred with y'all. That strut is powerful.
- 13:09Speaker 2: But when it comes to dancing, there's not a lot
- 13:12Speaker 2: at the show. There was not a lot of.
- 13:14Speaker 1: Em Instagram comments right now. I know, first of all, guys,
- 13:18Speaker 1: it's Donald unders don't do it, and it's an underscore
- 13:22Speaker 1: in seven f because he was so high he typed it.
- 13:24Speaker 2: Ronald No, I was drunk that night.
- 13:26Speaker 1: Oh drunk. I I was talking about not Taylor, And
- 13:32Speaker 1: I'm not comparing it to Beyonce or Lady Gaga anyway.
- 13:37Speaker 1: I thought the dancers that were hired were very good,
- 13:40Speaker 1: and the show is just so pretty, the stage production
- 13:42Speaker 1: and the lighting and uh, it's it was, like I
- 13:45Speaker 1: described her to someone as like a halftime show that
- 13:48Speaker 1: went for three and a half hours.
- 13:49Speaker 3: Yes, you know what the best part of it was
- 13:52Speaker 3: is when the stage is empty and it's just her
- 13:55Speaker 3: by herself on the stage, and you'll see how big
- 13:59Speaker 3: the stage and how she's commanding that big.
- 14:03Speaker 2: Of a stage.
- 14:03Speaker 3: It also helps that you have a giant freaking jumbo
- 14:07Speaker 3: tron up above. But when you look down and you
- 14:11Speaker 3: see just her in this big, giant tea of a stage,
- 14:17Speaker 3: Holy cow, it's like, Wow, you you buy yourself out there,
- 14:21Speaker 3: and you're doing.
- 14:22Speaker 2: It right now.
- 14:22Speaker 1: I know, and every and and seventy thousand people are
- 14:25Speaker 1: singing your lyrics back to you. What a feeling. That's crazy.
- 14:28Speaker 1: I'm gonna go see Coldplay at the Rose Ball on
- 14:30Speaker 1: September thirty. That'll be fun because you know that's my jam.
- 14:34Speaker 1: They're so fun live.
- 14:36Speaker 2: They got any new music, I'm sure they do.
- 14:40Speaker 1: I'm I'm going to see all my favorites I just got.
- 14:43Speaker 2: Also, one of last thing. She opened the motherfucker up
- 14:47Speaker 2: with freaking the song that's popping right now, the summer shit,
- 14:53Speaker 2: it's the Summer Jamo. So that should make me want
- 14:58Speaker 2: to do the snake like you freaking back, like straight off, dude,
- 15:03Speaker 2: straight up.
- 15:05Speaker 1: I also want to get a shout out. I want
- 15:07Speaker 1: to give a shout out to my very good friend,
- 15:10Speaker 1: one of the nicest people I've ever met in my life.
- 15:13Speaker 1: His name is Preston Boyd and he is currently playing
- 15:15Speaker 1: Javert in the tour of Lame Is Rob which is
- 15:20Speaker 1: currently in Los Angeles. And if you're listening to this
- 15:22Speaker 1: and you're gonna be in Los Angeles in the next
- 15:24Speaker 1: few weeks, I'm telling you go see it. He just
- 15:28Speaker 1: is extraordinary. I hope you're gonna go, Donald, I really
- 15:30Speaker 1: want to. You should bring Wilder. She'll love it. It's
- 15:34Speaker 1: so well done.
- 15:35Speaker 3: It's it's it's le mis I don't know, I know
- 15:37Speaker 3: it's I know it's singing throughout the whole thing. So
- 15:40Speaker 3: I'm hoping that'll that'll be intriguing to her.
- 15:44Speaker 1: But you can give her the basics of the story.
- 15:46Speaker 1: You could talk her, explain it to her.
- 15:48Speaker 2: Yeah, that'll be Yeah, that'll be interesting.
- 15:51Speaker 1: Anyway, it's a great production, and I'm so proud of
- 15:53Speaker 1: my friend because he's really great in it. So I
- 15:55Speaker 1: wanted to say, if you're in LA in the next
- 15:57Speaker 1: couple of weeks, go see it at the Pantages, which
- 15:59Speaker 1: is to beautiful theater.
- 16:00Speaker 3: I can't And also, yeah, before we move on, shout
- 16:05Speaker 3: out to Rachel zales Man, Yo, thanks for hooking up
- 16:08Speaker 3: the Cosamigo's suite.
- 16:10Speaker 2: That was really awesome. So shout out to her. Man.
- 16:12Speaker 3: We've known her for a really long time and she's
- 16:14Speaker 3: always been really nice to us, So shout out.
- 16:16Speaker 1: Yes. And Rachel, I believe, is the head of publicity
- 16:20Speaker 1: for Casa Ego, So she was the reason we not
- 16:23Speaker 1: that George Clooney doesn't love Donald and I places, but I.
- 16:28Speaker 2: Mean, but he I mean, I'm sure he listens to
- 16:30Speaker 2: the podcast.
- 16:31Speaker 1: Well, I know that George loves the podcast. George, I
- 16:35Speaker 1: don't think George was in charge of the guest list.
- 16:38Speaker 2: But I'm sure that's part of the reason.
- 16:40Speaker 1: I don't know, man with Donald in our minds, she
- 16:42Speaker 1: went to George.
- 16:44Speaker 3: He's in town, and I think Donald and Zach, after
- 16:47Speaker 3: listening to the podcast, would love to be.
- 16:49Speaker 1: Yeah, that's in our mind. That's how it happened that
- 16:51Speaker 1: George Clooney listens to the podcast, and he was like, Rachel,
- 16:54Speaker 1: come in my office please. I know we have limited
- 16:58Speaker 1: room in the suite and Lupita's already contacted me, but
- 17:02Speaker 1: are there two seats for Zach and Donald? And she's like,
- 17:06Speaker 1: aren't they straight. Yeah, are they going to bring children? No, No,
- 17:12Speaker 1: they're going to go on a date together.
- 17:17Speaker 2: That's exactly what happened. Yeah, here's what happened. I need
- 17:19Speaker 2: the sweep for them, Yes, I need this to be
- 17:22Speaker 2: a purpose.
- 17:22Speaker 1: He had to call Lupita and say, sorry, you only
- 17:24Speaker 1: get a plus one.
- 17:25Speaker 2: Right, because originally she had the whole thing.
- 17:28Speaker 1: Lupita had like plus five, and George had to call
- 17:30Speaker 1: her and calm that shit down. I'm sorry, Amy Adams,
- 17:37Speaker 1: no children alone, all right? So Donald's going to count
- 17:44Speaker 1: us in before he does, I want to say, you know,
- 17:47Speaker 1: we're not allowed to talk about scrubs, as you guys know.
- 17:49Speaker 1: So Donald and I are looking for cool opportunities to
- 17:52Speaker 1: invite really interesting people on the show. Sometimes they'll be
- 17:55Speaker 1: famous people, actors or creative types or other fame for
- 18:00Speaker 1: other reasons, Like Cody was an interesting to us. And
- 18:04Speaker 1: I've been fortunate enough to meet through Krista Miller, who
- 18:08Speaker 1: has a very good friend named Claire Staples, who when
- 18:11Speaker 1: I met Claire and heard her story and went to
- 18:14Speaker 1: her ranch in Malibu, I was just blown away by
- 18:20Speaker 1: what she has dedicated her life to. And I said
- 18:22Speaker 1: to Donald and Joelle and Daniel. I really want to
- 18:25Speaker 1: have this woman on because I've just become obsessed with
- 18:30Speaker 1: this woman's Instagram account. She has dedicated her life to
- 18:34Speaker 1: rescuing wild horses, and she will explain to us the
- 18:38Speaker 1: whole situation why the Bureau of Land Management rounds up
- 18:42Speaker 1: these horses, what they do to them, and how she
- 18:45Speaker 1: has dedicated her entire life and formed this charity that
- 18:49Speaker 1: rehabilitates and rescues these beautiful animals. And I've just been
- 18:54Speaker 1: so moved by it. I've been obsessively watching her videos.
- 18:57Speaker 1: She has an Instagram account, which we will send you to.
- 19:00Speaker 1: I turned my mom onto it, and literally, right before
- 19:01Speaker 1: I got on the podcast, my mom is like saying,
- 19:03Speaker 1: I can't stop watching these videos. I'm like crying because
- 19:06Speaker 1: they're so beautiful.
- 19:08Speaker 2: You just go down a rabbit hole, you know what
- 19:10Speaker 2: I mean.
- 19:10Speaker 3: You think like you know, you don't, you don't think
- 19:14Speaker 3: about stuff like that, and then all of a sudden,
- 19:17Speaker 3: it's you because you recommended it and I watched it.
- 19:22Speaker 2: It was like, wait a second, well, let me go
- 19:23Speaker 2: down more of this. Don't realize the feelings that these
- 19:27Speaker 2: animals have and the long lasting bonds and friendship that
- 19:31Speaker 2: they create. And it's really it's really interesting.
- 19:35Speaker 1: Yeah, and she's gonna tell us all about it. I
- 19:36Speaker 1: just want to give the instagram a shout out right
- 19:39Speaker 1: off the bat, because if you love animals, this is
- 19:42Speaker 1: just the most beautiful Instagram account. You see how she
- 19:46Speaker 1: rehabilitates these horses, and you follow their stories, and people
- 19:50Speaker 1: are so invested in their stories because Claire is such
- 19:53Speaker 1: a good storyteller. The account handle on Instagram is sky
- 19:57Speaker 1: Dog Sanctuary and join uh the four of us in
- 20:02Speaker 1: in uh in following them, and you will just fall
- 20:05Speaker 1: in love. And by the way, she'll go on to
- 20:07Speaker 1: tell you all about it. But the charity covers that
- 20:11Speaker 1: she raises money for these animals. It's also donkeys as well,
- 20:14Speaker 1: and and and and other you know, other equine you know,
- 20:18Speaker 1: zebras and the rescued from circuses and anything. She'll tell
- 20:21Speaker 1: us all about it. But I want you to know
- 20:23Speaker 1: that she it's her, it's a lot of it is
- 20:25Speaker 1: her money. She's she they're a wealthy couple, and the
- 20:29Speaker 1: charity helps raise money for food and vet bills, et cetera.
- 20:33Speaker 1: But she and her husband are the ones who bought
- 20:36Speaker 1: this nine thousand acre ranch in Bend Oregon and are
- 20:40Speaker 1: spending their own money to to rescue examimals. So it's
- 20:44Speaker 1: just really really inspiring.
- 20:45Speaker 2: Donald counts and six seven eight stories.
- 20:50Speaker 7: Sure, we made about a bunch of thousand stories natural.
- 21:02Speaker 5: So sweet.
- 21:11Speaker 1: All right, Daniel, please let in Claire Staples. Here she comes.
- 21:16Speaker 2: Ladies and gentlemen, give it up for Claire Staple. There,
- 21:28Speaker 2: she is, there, she is.
- 21:30Speaker 1: Hi, Claire.
- 21:31Speaker 5: Hello, can you hear me?
- 21:33Speaker 1: We can sound?
- 21:34Speaker 2: Are you good to see you?
- 21:35Speaker 1: Welcome to the program, Claire Staples. I am so excited
- 21:39Speaker 1: that you made this happen, that you're here with us.
- 21:41Speaker 5: It's kind of a dream come true moment for me
- 21:44Speaker 5: to be on your podcast, to be speaking to you.
- 21:47Speaker 2: We are very happy to make your dreams come true.
- 21:50Speaker 1: That's what we do here one how we do it, Claire. First,
- 21:54Speaker 1: I want you to meet the legendary Donald Faison. Hello, Donald,
- 21:58Speaker 1: And that's a Joel and Dan, our partners in this endeavor.
- 22:02Speaker 5: Hey, guys, I just.
- 22:04Speaker 1: Want to tell the audience I had the distance incredible experience.
- 22:08Speaker 1: Christa Miller said to me, I want to take you
- 22:10Speaker 1: to my friend's ranch in Malibu. She rescues wild horses,
- 22:15Speaker 1: And I said, well, I love animals. That sounds really interesting.
- 22:19Speaker 1: And I went and I saw this ranch, which is
- 22:22Speaker 1: relatively small to what Claire has going on in Bend, Oregon,
- 22:25Speaker 1: which is nine thousand acres. And Claire started to tell
- 22:29Speaker 1: me the story of why and what's going on with
- 22:33Speaker 1: the Bureau of Land Management and wild horses, and I
- 22:36Speaker 1: was just blown away and the more she talked and
- 22:38Speaker 1: she was so captivating. I then followed her on Instagram
- 22:42Speaker 1: and Claire I was just telling the audience that my mom,
- 22:45Speaker 1: literally right before I got in this podcast, text me,
- 22:48Speaker 1: I can't stop watching Claire's videos. There's so moving. She's like,
- 22:51Speaker 1: I'm crying watching these videos. So you've already got my mom,
- 22:55Speaker 1: and I hooked. Will you please just start at the
- 22:59Speaker 1: very beginning, because I imagine most people like myself know
- 23:02Speaker 1: nothing about what's going on first and foremost, why is
- 23:07Speaker 1: the Bureau of Land Management rounding up these horses and
- 23:12Speaker 1: how do they do it?
- 23:13Speaker 3: Okay, but before we start, sorry, I'm sorry. I had
- 23:17Speaker 3: no idea that this was happening. I thought this had
- 23:20Speaker 3: I thought horses were already bred in captivity. I didn't
- 23:25Speaker 3: know that there were still wild horses out there.
- 23:27Speaker 1: Okay, So.
- 23:31Speaker 2: Just to know, just the history of it all. This
- 23:33Speaker 2: land was once filled with horses like.
- 23:40Speaker 3: Zebra in Africa, you know what I mean, herds and
- 23:43Speaker 3: herds of horses.
- 23:45Speaker 5: No, and it's absolutely true. There used to be like
- 23:48Speaker 5: between two to five million wild horses all across the
- 23:52Speaker 5: Western States. And it is true when white man came
- 23:58Speaker 5: from the east to the west on the railroads that
- 24:02Speaker 5: were now built, actually they would give shotguns to the
- 24:07Speaker 5: passengers riding because as they went along they would shoot
- 24:10Speaker 5: buffalo or the wild horses just for entertainment, you know,
- 24:13Speaker 5: because they were bored on this cross country trip. That
- 24:17Speaker 5: and then I don't know if you guys know the
- 24:18Speaker 5: film The Misfits with James Deen and Marilyn Monroe. It's
- 24:22Speaker 5: an extraordinary film, but basically James Den plays a mustanger
- 24:26Speaker 5: back in the probably the fifties or sixties, and these
- 24:29Speaker 5: cowboys used to go out and round up hundreds of
- 24:33Speaker 5: wild horses and use them for a chicken feed and
- 24:36Speaker 5: pet food. And over that time the numbers diminished and diminished,
- 24:41Speaker 5: and eventually it got down to about twenty seven thousand
- 24:46Speaker 5: wild horses in the Western States, which from the millions
- 24:49Speaker 5: there were, was practically extinct. Yep, and this amazing woman
- 24:56Speaker 5: in Nevada happened. She was working as a secretary in
- 24:58Speaker 5: Reno and followed a slaughter truck that had blood pouring
- 25:02Speaker 5: out of it all the way to a slaughter house,
- 25:05Speaker 5: saw these wild horses being unloaded to be slaughtered. And
- 25:08Speaker 5: from that day in nineteen seventy one, well, in nineteen
- 25:11Speaker 5: seventy one, she actually got legislation passed. But she started
- 25:15Speaker 5: this amazing grassroots organization where she had kids right to
- 25:20Speaker 5: the president and ask him to protect America's wild horses.
- 25:24Speaker 5: And Richard Nixon actually brought in a bill to protect
- 25:27Speaker 5: the wild horses and wild Boroughs of America and.
- 25:31Speaker 1: Just paused there because I had to google this. Our
- 25:33Speaker 1: wild boroughs means wild donkey. Yes see, I did my homework.
- 25:37Speaker 2: You did.
- 25:38Speaker 5: Yeah. So this amazing piece of legislation came in obstensively
- 25:43Speaker 5: to protect them and increase their numbers. And since then
- 25:45Speaker 5: it's really been a battle between advocates for the wild horses,
- 25:50Speaker 5: the cattle ranchers, and extracted mining companies because our public
- 25:56Speaker 5: lands where these wild horses live are also used to
- 26:00Speaker 5: mine uranium and plutonium and oil and gas and coal,
- 26:04Speaker 5: and so these so the government's intent is really just
- 26:10Speaker 5: to clear the public lands and wild horses because they
- 26:12Speaker 5: don't make any money off them, and they do the
- 26:15Speaker 5: cattle lobbyists have enormous pull and sway in Congress. But
- 26:20Speaker 5: you know, it is funny because we always used to
- 26:23Speaker 5: talk about the BLM rounding up these horses, and then
- 26:26Speaker 5: Black Lives Matter came along, and then.
- 26:32Speaker 1: Wait, what does Black Lives Matter have to do with
- 26:34Speaker 1: the wild horses? You've already lost me.
- 26:37Speaker 5: Why are they out there rounding up all world horses?
- 26:40Speaker 5: It was a very confusing pivot that the organization made.
- 26:43Speaker 5: So I try and say the longer version as you
- 26:46Speaker 5: just did. Bureau of Land Management.
- 26:47Speaker 1: Okay, but Claire, why so just to go slowly because
- 26:51Speaker 1: there's a lot to digest. Yeah, is the cattle lobby
- 26:54Speaker 1: at the heart of why they are rounding up these horses?
- 26:59Speaker 5: A lot of the yes, they have just historically in
- 27:03Speaker 5: a state like Wyoming for example. You know, you don't
- 27:06Speaker 5: have to watch Yellowstone and these these cattle barons back
- 27:10Speaker 5: in the day had so much power and they really
- 27:12Speaker 5: treated public lands as a free grazing asset for their
- 27:16Speaker 5: cows that they would turn out onto public lands. They
- 27:19Speaker 5: would fatten them up and then bring them into slaughter
- 27:21Speaker 5: and make a lot of money from it. But these
- 27:23Speaker 5: days a lot of the people that own these massive
- 27:28Speaker 5: cattle ranches are really doing it as a tax break.
- 27:31Speaker 5: They're massive conglomerations like the Koch brothers in Hilton and
- 27:36Speaker 5: these they get so many tax breaks from running this
- 27:39Speaker 5: kind of scam where the tax payers are paying to
- 27:44Speaker 5: not only round up the wild horses in favor of
- 27:47Speaker 5: cows and sheep, but also because they're the people that
- 27:52Speaker 5: are electing the people in these states. So the cattle lobbyists,
- 27:56Speaker 5: you know, put money into their campaigns and get them
- 27:59Speaker 5: elected and change. They keep rounding up the horses and
- 28:02Speaker 5: skeep goating them as being the most detrimental thing to
- 28:05Speaker 5: public lands, when really cows and sheep out number horses
- 28:08Speaker 5: fifty to one sometimes on public lands.
- 28:11Speaker 2: They're just saying that the horses are grazing too much?
- 28:14Speaker 2: Are you fucking kidding me?
- 28:16Speaker 5: Now?
- 28:16Speaker 1: And the percentages are tiny. Clear, I look this up
- 28:18Speaker 1: and you'll know if this is accurate not. But I
- 28:20Speaker 1: was just again trying to be a good interviewer, because
- 28:22Speaker 1: Donald and I are going teaching ourselves to be really
- 28:25Speaker 1: good interviewers. It looks, you know, the percentages of horses
- 28:31Speaker 1: to livestock is minuscule, minuscule. How do they get away
- 28:35Speaker 1: with blaming the loss of whatever I'm assuming is the
- 28:40Speaker 1: feed to the horses if the number of cattle outnumber
- 28:43Speaker 1: the horses by so much of a percentage.
- 28:47Speaker 5: Yeah, and I know this is going to come as
- 28:49Speaker 5: a huge shocker to you, but the government lies. What
- 28:54Speaker 5: The BLM are an agency, government agency under the Department
- 28:58Speaker 5: of the Interior, and they saw of make up a
- 29:01Speaker 5: whole bunch of reasons for why the horses have to
- 29:03Speaker 5: keep being rounded up. But really it comes back to
- 29:06Speaker 5: the same reason the buffalo went extinct, or you know,
- 29:08Speaker 5: the Native American Indians were put on reservations. It's no
- 29:13Speaker 5: different to the wild West that it used to be.
- 29:15Speaker 5: It's a land grab. It's let's get rid of everything
- 29:18Speaker 5: that's inconvenient and not making us money. And that's their
- 29:21Speaker 5: primary purpose they think for being. And it's just it's
- 29:25Speaker 5: been an amazing thing in the last few years because
- 29:28Speaker 5: there because of social media, there are now so many
- 29:31Speaker 5: groups photographers that go out and photograph these wild horses,
- 29:35Speaker 5: which are so beautiful, and I think most of the
- 29:39Speaker 5: American public would rather see, you know, herds of picturesque
- 29:43Speaker 5: horses that all have names now and you know, are
- 29:46Speaker 5: very well known. And then and then the BLM comes
- 29:49Speaker 5: and rounds up, you know, three thousand of them at
- 29:51Speaker 5: a time, and it's heartbreaking for a lot of people.
- 29:54Speaker 5: But there just doesn't seem to be anything that we
- 29:56Speaker 5: can do. They have the law on their sides, and
- 29:59Speaker 5: it happening.
- 30:00Speaker 2: It's so crazy, man, because it seems like horses, mustangs,
- 30:04Speaker 2: all of that. It seems so American, you know what
- 30:06Speaker 2: I mean. It seems it's like it's like apple Pie
- 30:11Speaker 2: almost the horse, you know what I mean, Cowboys, all
- 30:14Speaker 2: of that stuff. And it's really interesting that the government's
- 30:20Speaker 2: trying to round them.
- 30:21Speaker 1: Up and take us into chapter two of the story
- 30:24Speaker 1: just to just to go through it all. So then
- 30:27Speaker 1: when they do talk us through the round up, they
- 30:28Speaker 1: round up these wild horses using all using helicopters. I
- 30:32Speaker 1: believe you're gonna tell us about it, and then they
- 30:33Speaker 1: put them in these sort of holding pens that, as
- 30:38Speaker 1: you can imagine, are not ideal conditions at all. So
- 30:41Speaker 1: tell us about that part of it.
- 30:43Speaker 5: Yeah, So they announce a round up, they ask for
- 30:46Speaker 5: public comment, they ignore them all and then they come
- 30:49Speaker 5: during a certain you know, they'll say, okay, this round
- 30:51Speaker 5: up is going to take two weeks, and helicopters come
- 30:56Speaker 5: and push all these round horses, all these wild horses
- 31:00Speaker 5: into a trap which kind of has just burlap on
- 31:03Speaker 5: either side, and they use a judas horse, which is
- 31:07Speaker 5: really interesting that it's.
- 31:08Speaker 1: Called judas horse. What's that.
- 31:10Speaker 5: So they hold on to a tame horse who's trained
- 31:13Speaker 5: to run into the trap, and when he starts running
- 31:16Speaker 5: alongside the other horses, they all follow him in, which
- 31:19Speaker 5: is why he's so I know he's a judas he's
- 31:22Speaker 5: betrayed all his Yeah, he turns on them. So that's
- 31:26Speaker 5: always interesting. But I mean, the roundups are horrific and brutal.
- 31:31Speaker 5: A lot of the horses die or are a shot
- 31:34Speaker 5: at the trap site for having any kind of impediment,
- 31:37Speaker 5: like if they've can't see out of one eye, or
- 31:40Speaker 5: they have you know, a broken knee, puffed up me.
- 31:44Speaker 5: It's things they've been living out in the world and
- 31:46Speaker 5: they were just chased by helicopter and managed to survive that,
- 31:49Speaker 5: and then sadly they shoot them at the trap site
- 31:51Speaker 5: for if they think they're unadoptable, and they're then taken
- 31:56Speaker 5: to short term holding facilities which are all over the
- 32:00Speaker 5: Western States, in every state, and they're kept there. Some
- 32:03Speaker 5: are adopted out, but most tend to go to these
- 32:07Speaker 5: long term holding facilities, which is yet another way for
- 32:11Speaker 5: ranchers and cowboys to make money off these wild horses,
- 32:14Speaker 5: because they get paid millions to have wild horses on
- 32:19Speaker 5: their land or stockpile them or keep them in pens
- 32:22Speaker 5: until they die. So it's a pretty sad life from
- 32:26Speaker 5: the day.
- 32:26Speaker 2: Wait, I'm so confused.
- 32:28Speaker 3: Why are they paid millions to house horses but not
- 32:31Speaker 3: millions to take care of the horses. So you don't
- 32:34Speaker 3: have to take care of the horse. All you have
- 32:36Speaker 3: to do is house the horse.
- 32:37Speaker 5: Yeah, how's the horse? And you get paid a certain
- 32:40Speaker 5: amount a day. And it really is a black hole
- 32:43Speaker 5: that horses disappear into and there's very little way of
- 32:46Speaker 5: finding out where they went or so.
- 32:48Speaker 3: They could be turned into they could be slaughtered and
- 32:50Speaker 3: turned into food.
- 32:51Speaker 1: Yeah, talk about the slaughter piece, Claire, Because Claire was
- 32:55Speaker 1: telling me that the government has a program where they
- 32:58Speaker 1: say you can adopt one of the horses and they'll
- 33:00Speaker 1: actually pay you one thousand dollars to take on one
- 33:03Speaker 1: of these animals. Yeah, but then they discovered that there's
- 33:07Speaker 1: a loophole where people are quote unquote adopting them and
- 33:10Speaker 1: then selling them for slaughter for meat in Mexico. Do
- 33:14Speaker 1: I have that right?
- 33:15Speaker 5: Yeah, Mexico and Canada. So yeah, that's exactly what happens.
- 33:19Speaker 5: People come and they might take four or eight or
- 33:23Speaker 5: twelve or sixteen, because you can adopt them in groups
- 33:25Speaker 5: of four, so they get their entire family to each
- 33:28Speaker 5: adopt four, bring them to their place, and then as
- 33:32Speaker 5: soon as they get the title for the horse, and
- 33:34Speaker 5: it means they own them, they take them to the
- 33:37Speaker 5: local auction livestock auction and sell them from meat money,
- 33:41Speaker 5: which is the price per pound that they're selling out
- 33:44Speaker 5: at that time, and then they're shipped to either Mexico
- 33:46Speaker 5: or Canada because Americas shut down horslaughter plants a long
- 33:50Speaker 5: time ago, just because Americans decided we don't eat horses,
- 33:54Speaker 5: their companion animals. They have helped us found this country
- 33:57Speaker 5: and pull a plow and go into war with and
- 34:00Speaker 5: we don't.
- 34:00Speaker 2: Eat and we don't want them here anymore.
- 34:04Speaker 1: Apparently, Yeah, I now clear explain to me the loophole
- 34:09Speaker 1: how does if we have outlawed slaughter. But the loophole
- 34:14Speaker 1: is that you can sell it to someone in Mexico
- 34:16Speaker 1: who can.
- 34:17Speaker 2: Slaughter it and you still get paid.
- 34:19Speaker 1: You get one thousand dollars per horse to take it.
- 34:22Speaker 2: Yes, they pay you to take care of it too,
- 34:24Speaker 2: Am I correct?
- 34:25Speaker 1: No, they're adopt it. Yeah, exactly, you can adopt I mean,
- 34:28Speaker 1: correct me if I'm wrong. Clear, you can literally take
- 34:30Speaker 1: a thousand dollars per horse to adopt it and then
- 34:33Speaker 1: turn around and sell it to slaughter in Mexico.
- 34:35Speaker 5: Yeah, so you sell it to a kill buyer. You
- 34:37Speaker 5: sell it at a livestock auction, but it's usually going
- 34:39Speaker 5: to be a kill buyer that buys up these large
- 34:42Speaker 5: numbers of unhandled wild horses because there's not much other
- 34:46Speaker 5: use for them, and then they will ship them in
- 34:49Speaker 5: huge semi trucks across the border to Mexico where they
- 34:53Speaker 5: are killed in the most horrifying way. So we won't
- 34:57Speaker 5: even talk about that. It's too horrible to even think
- 34:59Speaker 5: about it.
- 35:00Speaker 1: Okay. Now, when we come back, we're gonna do a
- 35:02Speaker 1: quick break. That's all the bad news. When we come
- 35:05Speaker 1: back after this break, we're gonna tell you what this
- 35:07Speaker 1: angel of a human being sent from the heavens above,
- 35:10Speaker 1: has dedicated her life to doing to save the animals.
- 35:14Speaker 1: Will be right.
- 35:14Speaker 2: Back and we're back.
- 35:24Speaker 1: We're black with Claire Staples Claire one of the videos.
- 35:29Speaker 1: So I want you to tell us all about the
- 35:31Speaker 1: foundation you founded. I sent listeners to it already. You
- 35:34Speaker 1: have to follow her on Instagram Skydog Sanctuary. Do I
- 35:38Speaker 1: have that right?
- 35:39Speaker 5: Yes? Correct, you will.
- 35:40Speaker 1: You will be like my mom and I or wait,
- 35:43Speaker 1: it's my mom and me Krista your friend christ By
- 35:47Speaker 1: the way, you know this one thing about Christa is
- 35:49Speaker 1: if you don't say the right me and I version,
- 35:52Speaker 1: she corrects you.
- 35:54Speaker 2: But there is no eye version, is what she said
- 35:55Speaker 2: to us originally.
- 35:56Speaker 1: No, there is. You just have to say. The trick
- 35:58Speaker 1: she taught me is you you take out the name,
- 36:01Speaker 1: so I would. I would say you have to join
- 36:03Speaker 1: me in watching Skydog Sanctuary Instagram. So then I add
- 36:07Speaker 1: my mom and I go, you have to join my
- 36:09Speaker 1: mom and me? Right, you wouldn't say you have to
- 36:13Speaker 1: join I. I think I got that right.
- 36:16Speaker 5: I don't want to get in trouble.
- 36:17Speaker 1: Chris has been lecturing me on that for twenty three years.
- 36:19Speaker 1: But I think I finally.
- 36:20Speaker 2: Got since I've known her, Yeah, every time.
- 36:23Speaker 1: Because every she is shameless. If you don't say the
- 36:25Speaker 1: right version, she corrects you and it's wrong. Since we're here,
- 36:29Speaker 1: I always say it wrong. But now we're for in
- 36:31Speaker 1: front of her friend Claire. We got to get it right.
- 36:34Speaker 1: Join my mom and me in watching Skydog Sanctuary videos.
- 36:38Speaker 1: The way you Claire is such a good story. Tell
- 36:40Speaker 1: her you know every single one of these horses names,
- 36:44Speaker 1: tell us about the foundation. And there was a viral
- 36:47Speaker 1: video that I recommend. There's a there's an account called
- 36:51Speaker 1: the Dodo, which I think focuses on on animal stories and.
- 36:55Speaker 2: You have a few. You have a few stories.
- 36:56Speaker 1: Yeah, the Dodo is a big fan of Claire. But
- 36:59Speaker 1: talk about I just watched it and tears came to
- 37:02Speaker 1: my eyes. This is kind of like a beautiful distillation
- 37:05Speaker 1: of what Claire does. And tell the story of the
- 37:09Speaker 1: of the mustang that was that you photographed, that was
- 37:12Speaker 1: photographed jumping out of one of these pens and trying
- 37:17Speaker 1: to escape, and then Claire was able to reunite him
- 37:21Speaker 1: with one of his man Please don't give it away, Okay,
- 37:25Speaker 1: sorry spoiler, but Claire tell the story, please, because this
- 37:28Speaker 1: this is the kind of thing that Claire does, and
- 37:30Speaker 1: it's detective work, and it's it's just amazing.
- 37:33Speaker 2: Please the fact that you were able to and also
- 37:36Speaker 2: last thing, the fact that you were able to put
- 37:39Speaker 2: two and two together.
- 37:41Speaker 3: Look, I look at horses. Them things all look alike.
- 37:44Speaker 3: I'm gonna keep it one hundred.
- 37:45Speaker 2: I love. I think they're beautiful.
- 37:48Speaker 1: They don't all look alike.
- 37:49Speaker 2: Donald, I mean, yeah, some are darker than others. But
- 37:52Speaker 2: like you put a white horse in front of me,
- 37:53Speaker 2: I'm gonna be like silver. You know what I mean.
- 37:56Speaker 1: All Right, Claire, Please tell the story of this beautiful mustang.
- 38:00Speaker 5: That was just such an extraordinary thing for us, because actually,
- 38:04Speaker 5: someone that does a lot of techie stuff sent to
- 38:07Speaker 5: me a screenshot of us trending at number seven on
- 38:11Speaker 5: YouTube or something like that that day, and I was
- 38:13Speaker 5: just mind blown because I think I'm living in this
- 38:16Speaker 5: little world of horse people. And then the fact that
- 38:18Speaker 5: it had gone so viral, and that was a horse
- 38:21Speaker 5: named Phoenix who it really just started with a photograph.
- 38:25Speaker 5: I follow some of the advocacy groups and I saw
- 38:27Speaker 5: this photograph of this distinctive horse jumping a seven foot
- 38:32Speaker 5: panel after he'd been chased by helicopter, pushed in and
- 38:35Speaker 5: his family was sort of looking up as he went
- 38:38Speaker 5: over the fence, and I just thought, because it was
- 38:41Speaker 5: my local corrals, which is like two hours away, I thought,
- 38:44Speaker 5: I'm just going to go there and see if that
- 38:45Speaker 5: horse survived, you know, is he there? And there he
- 38:49Speaker 5: was with another horse that was in that video. It
- 38:52Speaker 5: was his kind of lieutenant in the band. And I
- 38:55Speaker 5: saw his mayor and then I inquired about him, and
- 38:59Speaker 5: they told me that he was going to be released
- 39:01Speaker 5: into the wild and he you know, because of his
- 39:04Speaker 5: genetics and stuff. Anyway, months and months went by, and
- 39:07Speaker 5: I used to go to the crowds and every time
- 39:09Speaker 5: I would see him and tell him he's going to
- 39:11Speaker 5: go out and be free again. And then one day, yeah,
- 39:14Speaker 5: they was lying, Yeah, it's a common thread. But anyway,
- 39:19Speaker 5: he was still there like a year later, and I
- 39:21Speaker 5: asked about him because his friend had now gone and
- 39:23Speaker 5: they'd sent his friend to Germany to a Mustang event
- 39:27Speaker 5: and he was now available for adoption. So I adopted
- 39:30Speaker 5: him because I was like, that horse wanted to be
- 39:32Speaker 5: free more than any horse I've seen, Like he jumped
- 39:35Speaker 5: like higher than any horse I've ever seen. So I
- 39:37Speaker 5: was like, let's give him back his freedom. But I
- 39:40Speaker 5: could never find his mayor. And it was I think
- 39:42Speaker 5: a year and a half later. I always look on
- 39:45Speaker 5: the internet adoptions and there she was. And I literally
- 39:48Speaker 5: was like wait, and I was looking at the pictures
- 39:51Speaker 5: of her and looking at her and looking at the pictures,
- 39:53Speaker 5: I was like, it's her. How long?
- 39:56Speaker 3: How long were you looking at? Like that's the question?
- 39:58Speaker 3: Like it was, it's definitely not split. You had to
- 40:01Speaker 3: freaking pay attention to things that you had to find again.
- 40:06Speaker 5: I was like, Okay, she has orange ears even though
- 40:09Speaker 5: she's white, and orange knees, and she has this mark
- 40:12Speaker 5: on her shoulder and her tail is like this. I mean,
- 40:14Speaker 5: it really was like zooming in all the pictures, going
- 40:18Speaker 5: I think that's her. And then when we brought her
- 40:21Speaker 5: home and reunited her with Phoenix, we called her ghost.
- 40:25Speaker 2: Ghosts yeahs because she was like a ghost.
- 40:27Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 40:28Speaker 3: Not only was she not only is she a white
- 40:32Speaker 3: horse with which reminds you of like a ghost with
- 40:35Speaker 3: a sheetoverer and everything like that.
- 40:37Speaker 2: She's literally a ghost.
- 40:38Speaker 3: After you adopted Phoenix, it's impossible to find ghosts.
- 40:42Speaker 2: Literally. I thought she was disappeared. Yeah, gone, yeah.
- 40:46Speaker 5: Because I looked for her at the corals and never
- 40:49Speaker 5: found her there, so I was like, where the heck
- 40:52Speaker 5: has she been, you know, suddenly to appear on the
- 40:54Speaker 5: internet adoption so long afterwards, and their reunion was really beautiful.
- 40:59Speaker 5: All of the families that we've reunited, it's been one
- 41:02Speaker 5: of our most popular things. Even though it's a small
- 41:05Speaker 5: fraction of what we do, it is something that has
- 41:08Speaker 5: touched people's hearts. They think really.
- 41:11Speaker 1: Deeply because this is something I didn't know, Claire until
- 41:14Speaker 1: I spoke to you, But these these are these families
- 41:17Speaker 1: stay together in the wild.
- 41:18Speaker 2: That's what I was about to say. I was going
- 41:19Speaker 2: to say, Can you talk about how to talk about that?
- 41:21Speaker 2: How horses are like the bond is forever?
- 41:26Speaker 1: Yeah, a male horse will have a group of mayors
- 41:31Speaker 1: and then their children and they continue to hang together
- 41:34Speaker 1: as a family, right.
- 41:36Speaker 5: Well, they actually the males kick out the young cults,
- 41:41Speaker 5: the boys at about two years old, because they don't
- 41:43Speaker 5: want them competing with them within their family, which kind
- 41:46Speaker 5: of it's good because it creates diversity. And then the
- 41:50Speaker 5: young phillies will be stolen by other young stallions. So
- 41:54Speaker 5: there's kind of a stallion in his mayor and they
- 41:56Speaker 5: might be having children, but then those children go out
- 41:59Speaker 5: and have their own family. But yeah, the bonds they
- 42:02Speaker 5: form out there and they have their own little societies,
- 42:05Speaker 5: and it's really we have we rescued one family. That's
- 42:10Speaker 5: four generations of like a grandmother, her daughter, her daughter,
- 42:14Speaker 5: her son, and they had stayed together. If a stallion
- 42:17Speaker 5: stole one, they would all go with him. And it's
- 42:20Speaker 5: just very cool to watch and be around them. They're
- 42:23Speaker 5: such deep, deeply thinking and profoundly sentient beings, you know.
- 42:30Speaker 5: And that's why the whole slaughter pipeline, I think is
- 42:32Speaker 5: really hard to watch because you know, they know, you know,
- 42:36Speaker 5: they know they're in a bad place. They've lost their freedom,
- 42:38Speaker 5: their family and now their lives, and it's it's just
- 42:42Speaker 5: a horrible it's a horrible underbelly that so. And I
- 42:46Speaker 5: really do appreciate you having me on because there are
- 42:49Speaker 5: so many you think everyone knows I know all.
- 42:54Speaker 1: I love animals, did I love animals? Horses? I had
- 42:58Speaker 1: no idea about this, And that's.
- 42:59Speaker 3: Why I had no idea that the dopamine levels and
- 43:02Speaker 3: horses was so high. Man Like, that's the we feel
- 43:05Speaker 3: love on such levels because of the dopamine that we
- 43:08Speaker 3: have in our body, right like that.
- 43:10Speaker 5: I love that.
- 43:11Speaker 3: And when you know, we don't ever look at other
- 43:17Speaker 3: animals as unique and as special as that's because they
- 43:20Speaker 3: don't have communication, or we don't look at them as
- 43:23Speaker 3: intelligent and stuff like that. But to hear that these
- 43:26Speaker 3: the bond is not it's a I don't know, man,
- 43:30Speaker 3: There's something special about staying together, you know what I mean.
- 43:34Speaker 2: We make movies about that shit. All of the best
- 43:36Speaker 2: movies in the world are how we stay together as
- 43:39Speaker 2: a family. Nothing could break the family apart. Yeah, And
- 43:42Speaker 2: to know that horses like this, it's really it's really,
- 43:45Speaker 2: it's really like mind blowing. It's also inspiring, Like, you know.
- 43:49Speaker 1: What Claire's creating is a really special sanctuary where all
- 43:54Speaker 1: these animals that have been separated in the most brutal
- 43:57Speaker 1: way can be brought together there.
- 44:00Speaker 2: Let's take a break.
- 44:01Speaker 1: We'll be right back after these fine words. And I
- 44:11Speaker 1: also want to segue into there's the animal reunification, the
- 44:14Speaker 1: family reunification thing, which is so beautiful. But also a
- 44:17Speaker 1: lot of the stories on your Instagram I noticed are
- 44:19Speaker 1: how you and your team are rehabilitating these injured horses
- 44:23Speaker 1: because obviously a lot of them come in really messed up,
- 44:27Speaker 1: and some of them are blind, some of them have cancer,
- 44:30Speaker 1: every every issue you can imagine a wild horse who's
- 44:34Speaker 1: been in captivity in poor conditions might have. So talk
- 44:39Speaker 1: about that, how you how you and the and the
- 44:42Speaker 1: vets decide how much you can do when when when
- 44:47Speaker 1: when when is an animal beyond your ability to help
- 44:50Speaker 1: it and needs to be put down? Can you talk
- 44:52Speaker 1: about that.
- 44:52Speaker 3: Well also, and also talk about how like the you know,
- 44:56Speaker 3: the illnesses and stuff like that, a normal rancher would
- 44:59Speaker 3: just put down that animal right away and not give
- 45:02Speaker 3: the animal a chance, and how.
- 45:05Speaker 5: Saving them yep, and I do appreciate it. Is one
- 45:09Speaker 5: thing we've worked really hard to establish a relationship with
- 45:12Speaker 5: our local crows that round up these horses, because they
- 45:15Speaker 5: do shoot a lot of horses for having small things
- 45:19Speaker 5: which really aren't death sentence. And we have really appreciated
- 45:24Speaker 5: the fact that they've now let us come and take
- 45:26Speaker 5: special needs horses or seniors that might be euthanized. And
- 45:32Speaker 5: we've just had such success with that, and I think
- 45:34Speaker 5: it's really informed a lot of people because often euthanasia
- 45:39Speaker 5: is the first place that let's go to or people
- 45:42Speaker 5: go to and thinking that this horse has this or that,
- 45:45Speaker 5: and a lot of the rehabs we've done have been
- 45:48Speaker 5: kind of groundbreaking in showing other people. We took on
- 45:53Speaker 5: this donkey Waldo and his hooves which are kind of
- 45:56Speaker 5: supposed to like that they had grown all the way around,
- 45:58Speaker 5: so he was kind of walking on his knuckles. And
- 46:01Speaker 5: even when the vet's first one, they were like, Claire,
- 46:04Speaker 5: I mean, this is you know, this is not what
- 46:07Speaker 5: we expected. But we did a lot of research and
- 46:10Speaker 5: we showed it to them. To be to be fair
- 46:13Speaker 5: to that vet, he called a lot of people that
- 46:15Speaker 5: were experts. They did these like two surgeries on his
- 46:18Speaker 5: legs and got his feet and now he runs around.
- 46:21Speaker 5: This donkey Waldo is so popular and it's he has
- 46:26Speaker 5: now used that as a sort of test study and
- 46:28Speaker 5: a case and it written a paper on it for
- 46:30Speaker 5: other people to do the same on horses or donkeys
- 46:33Speaker 5: that have the same issue. So those things are really
- 46:35Speaker 5: meaningful to us because it's meant that we've actually done things,
- 46:39Speaker 5: and they can be costly and it takes a lot
- 46:42Speaker 5: of rehabbing, a lot of kind of personal care from
- 46:45Speaker 5: the staff getting them back to normal, but then to
- 46:47Speaker 5: see them live, these wonderful lives and blind horses, you know,
- 46:52Speaker 5: be able to get around. And we've sometimes had a
- 46:54Speaker 5: pen of blind horses all start running and they're running
- 46:57Speaker 5: in between the trees, and you think, how is that
- 46:59Speaker 5: possible that they you know, but they learn it in
- 47:02Speaker 5: their mind. They mental map the whole thing, and they
- 47:04Speaker 5: know where their water is.
- 47:06Speaker 1: And they saw that video. I got tears in my eyes.
- 47:08Speaker 1: You guys got to look for that video on her
- 47:10Speaker 1: Instagram and it's a pen of a large pen of
- 47:13Speaker 1: blind horses and they're all together and they're they're running
- 47:18Speaker 1: so fast and Claire is narrating. She goes, you'd think
- 47:21Speaker 1: that they would be in danger, but they have literally
- 47:24Speaker 1: memorized every tree, everything that they could run into. It's
- 47:28Speaker 1: so beautiful.
- 47:29Speaker 5: Yeah, it was very cool. So we do a lot
- 47:32Speaker 5: of that. But also, you know, I think it's also
- 47:35Speaker 5: with what Donald was saying about the families and the
- 47:37Speaker 5: bonds they have, that was such an inconvenient truth for
- 47:41Speaker 5: the BLM, because they want to portray these animals as livestock.
- 47:45Speaker 5: They have a tag number. They are only useful as
- 47:48Speaker 5: a tool to be used by people and to then
- 47:52Speaker 5: rewrite that story and show through, you know, amazing evidence
- 47:57Speaker 5: that these animals do have these bonds and family malise
- 48:00Speaker 5: and love for each other. That's palpable and easy to see.
- 48:04Speaker 5: It's been a very thing that the BLM really fought against.
- 48:07Speaker 5: But now they've kind of put off their hands and
- 48:09Speaker 5: go find that they have families, you know, and then
- 48:12Speaker 5: other sanctuaries and other rescues have reunited families, which is
- 48:15Speaker 5: the coolest thing because I think, you know, then we
- 48:18Speaker 5: can recognize these animals as you know, who are we
- 48:22Speaker 5: as men to say we're the only ones that love
- 48:24Speaker 5: our children or we're the only ones that have deep bonds.
- 48:27Speaker 5: And so it's it's cool that's been I've been really
- 48:31Speaker 5: proud of that.
- 48:31Speaker 1: And it's very spooky because all of these horses have
- 48:35Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's it's it's it's analogous to the
- 48:37Speaker 1: Holocaust with the numbers on on on people's wrists that
- 48:41Speaker 1: all of these horses when you watch the videos have
- 48:43Speaker 1: government what the brands brand government brands And Claire was
- 48:50Speaker 1: trying to explain to me when their hair grows out,
- 48:52Speaker 1: you can't really read the brand, but she was saying,
- 48:53Speaker 1: and they're kind of tricky to read anyway, what is that?
- 48:56Speaker 1: It denotes where they were captured, right, and yeah it don't.
- 48:59Speaker 5: It says you asked that the property of the US government,
- 49:02Speaker 5: and then it gives them the year that they estimate
- 49:05Speaker 5: they were born, and then where they were rounded up
- 49:08Speaker 5: and attack number to identify them.
- 49:10Speaker 2: Branded this or this is shaved into this branded.
- 49:13Speaker 1: Yeah, it's branded. But when you watch the videos you'll
- 49:15Speaker 1: see that because their hairs grow around a bit, it's
- 49:17Speaker 1: a little hard to even decipher.
- 49:19Speaker 2: You ever been branded?
- 49:21Speaker 1: No, personally, No, I have not.
- 49:22Speaker 3: They do it in college fraternities. Sometimes that shit gets infected.
- 49:25Speaker 2: Man. That shit does not look good. Man. I know
- 49:27Speaker 2: a couple of people that have been branded. They got
- 49:29Speaker 2: that horseshoe on their arm. That ship don't look good. Bro,
- 49:33Speaker 2: that shit hurts too well.
- 49:34Speaker 1: I think we should do I was a real friend,
- 49:37Speaker 1: I would be like I was infected for weeks. Donald,
- 49:40Speaker 1: would would you be open to a fake doctor's real friends? Brand?
- 49:44Speaker 2: In opposite world?
- 49:45Speaker 1: Danel you. I think I'm good, but I appreciate it.
- 49:50Speaker 1: I'll be there to supervised.
- 49:51Speaker 3: I can hold somebody want to pay me that you
- 49:52Speaker 3: want to pay me that money, I'll get that ship.
- 49:54Speaker 1: So I'm not going to pay you for a fake
- 49:55Speaker 1: doctor's real friends. Was it was a volunteer project.
- 49:58Speaker 2: No, no, no.
- 49:59Speaker 6: As a representative my heart, I'm gonna say we do
- 50:01Speaker 6: not condone Brandon.
- 50:02Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 50:02Speaker 1: No.
- 50:03Speaker 5: On that show Yellowstone, they brand the life as people
- 50:08Speaker 5: that are going to stay there for life. They give
- 50:10Speaker 5: them the why on their chest, and well, I love it.
- 50:15Speaker 1: I think you can imagine that Claire might like Yellowstone
- 50:17Speaker 1: as she's dedicated her life to ranching.
- 50:20Speaker 5: Yeah, I want to be Beth Bears, Beth Beth Bears,
- 50:23Speaker 5: Beth Dutton. I don't think Beth Beth Bears is the
- 50:25Speaker 5: sweetest woman in the world and very supportive of our
- 50:28Speaker 5: calls and sponsors a horse. Beth Dutton on Yellowstone is
- 50:32Speaker 5: a very she's She's a character.
- 50:34Speaker 2: I've never watched the show.
- 50:36Speaker 1: But Donald doesn't. But Donald doesn't watch most things that
- 50:39Speaker 1: don't have Star Wars, Marvel.
- 50:41Speaker 2: Well he Harrison Wards and yellow Stone.
- 50:44Speaker 1: That's so that's a prequel. You might want to watch
- 50:46Speaker 1: that prequal Yeah, you can pretend it's Hen Solo.
- 50:49Speaker 3: I could pretend to Town Solo or Indiana Jones. Yes,
- 50:52Speaker 3: I'd prefer not to. I would prefer to pretend that
- 50:57Speaker 3: there are some black ranchers.
- 50:59Speaker 2: There are yellow Ye who plays them? Who they get
- 51:03Speaker 2: to play the black manches?
- 51:04Speaker 5: Donald Richards doesn't then and Richards is he.
- 51:09Speaker 1: Well, will you please google? I never thought, I asked,
- 51:14Speaker 1: when you play Google the black actors who play the ranchers.
- 51:17Speaker 1: Donald wants to be mad at them forgetting a role
- 51:19Speaker 1: he could have gotten.
- 51:20Speaker 2: That I could have gotten with Harrison Flord on Yellowstone.
- 51:23Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, Claire, tell us a little bit about
- 51:25Speaker 1: as Joel looks that up the charity aspects. I was
- 51:28Speaker 1: explaining the audience that you do fundraise for individual causes
- 51:31Speaker 1: for surgeries and stuff and and and but but but
- 51:35Speaker 1: you and your husband pay for the majority of this.
- 51:38Speaker 1: As I understand, you've you've built this nine thousand acre sanctuary, right,
- 51:43Speaker 1: tell talk a little bit about how people can give
- 51:46Speaker 1: and and and what they're actually giving. Four.
- 51:49Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean it all came about I had a
- 51:51Speaker 5: sort of epiphany at age fifty. I sort of looked
- 51:57Speaker 5: around and looked at my life, and I'd spent that
- 52:00Speaker 5: that part of my life believing in the things that
- 52:05Speaker 5: people tell you will make you happy. You know, if
- 52:07Speaker 5: you get to this weight, or you have this car,
- 52:09Speaker 5: or you live in this place, or you have that boyfriend,
- 52:12Speaker 5: and having had all those things, realizing that it wasn't
- 52:18Speaker 5: as a happiness that was sustainable it, you know, it
- 52:21Speaker 5: was very fleeting, and then you want another thing or
- 52:24Speaker 5: another person or another place, and just kind of realizing that,
- 52:28Speaker 5: you know, and also I'm in recovery, so getting back
- 52:31Speaker 5: into sobriety and realizing that I really truly wanted to
- 52:35Speaker 5: be of service and horses had been my deepest love
- 52:40Speaker 5: and passion, you know, in my childhood and throughout my life.
- 52:43Speaker 5: They'd kind of come back in and I just thought,
- 52:46Speaker 5: you know, if I can take that passion I have
- 52:49Speaker 5: and turn it into a life worth living, Like a
- 52:52Speaker 5: purpose driven life is a book I read at the time,
- 52:55Speaker 5: and I was like, that's really the key to happiness
- 52:58Speaker 5: for human beings, being of service, having a purpose. So
- 53:01Speaker 5: it really just shifted. I was like, Okay, how do
- 53:04Speaker 5: I do this? And I had some horses at the time,
- 53:06Speaker 5: but I thought there are so many need and so
- 53:09Speaker 5: many wild horses that I'm reading about the plight to
- 53:14Speaker 5: wild horses and how many were in the slaughter pipeline.
- 53:16Speaker 5: I just kind of went to my husband and went,
- 53:18Speaker 5: We're going to need a bigger ranch, and the famous ruds,
- 53:25Speaker 5: we're going to need a bigger ranch.
- 53:26Speaker 1: This is nine thousand acres. That's not a small ranch.
- 53:29Speaker 5: And if I have understood what nine thousand acres look like,
- 53:32Speaker 5: I might have had some paws.
- 53:33Speaker 2: But I was about to say, like you have to
- 53:35Speaker 2: did you have to tear down tree? Like there's you did?
- 53:39Speaker 3: Like I don't know what a nine thousand acre ranch
- 53:42Speaker 3: would look like either, but that's.
- 53:44Speaker 2: A lot of maintenance. I do. I do know that.
- 53:47Speaker 2: And then you have like two landscaping right, just got
- 53:50Speaker 2: to be outrageous. And then you have all of the
- 53:52Speaker 2: horse a tack and field that you have to purchase
- 53:55Speaker 2: and stuff like that, like hey.
- 53:58Speaker 1: And now, and all of them, the special needs horses,
- 54:01Speaker 1: a lot of them they need, they need incredible amount
- 54:03Speaker 1: of vet help.
- 54:05Speaker 3: Like you could be I don't care if you're rich.
- 54:07Speaker 3: You gotta have some type of support coming in. You
- 54:09Speaker 3: can't sustain this type of lifestyle like this is like
- 54:12Speaker 3: buying kids times you know you need.
- 54:17Speaker 2: Shoot, I don't know any horses you got. It's a
- 54:19Speaker 2: lot of money. Though. It was my point. Let's take
- 54:21Speaker 2: a break.
- 54:21Speaker 1: We'll be right back after these fine words. How many
- 54:31Speaker 1: do you have on the property.
- 54:32Speaker 5: We have three hundred equines. Two hundred and thirty of
- 54:36Speaker 5: them are horses wild horses, and the rest are mules
- 54:39Speaker 5: or donkeys BLM donkeys. And we have two z brands
- 54:43Speaker 5: as well, two babys and some zonkeys, which has a
- 54:46Speaker 5: cross between a zebraander donkey.
- 54:48Speaker 1: I love a sonkey, I love a zonkee.
- 54:51Speaker 2: So yeah.
- 54:52Speaker 5: My husband was amazing in helping me set up the
- 54:55Speaker 5: whole thing, and I said to him, if you help
- 54:57Speaker 5: me set this up, I promise after year three I
- 55:00Speaker 5: will be fully self supporting through my own contributions, which
- 55:04Speaker 5: is a thing that we say in AA And I
- 55:07Speaker 5: kind of got there in eighteen months because I just
- 55:10Speaker 5: I'm one of these people that when I put my
- 55:11Speaker 5: heart and soul and energy into something, I want to
- 55:15Speaker 5: be the best that I can be. And it just
- 55:18Speaker 5: kept growing, and especially actually during the pandemic, I realized
- 55:23Speaker 5: that our social media was really becoming this place where
- 55:27Speaker 5: people were coming to watch these videos of these horses
- 55:30Speaker 5: who ironically were being released to being wild and free
- 55:33Speaker 5: when we were all trapped in our houses and living
- 55:36Speaker 5: in fear and we didn't want to watch the news.
- 55:38Speaker 5: So people were saying you know, I was getting these
- 55:41Speaker 5: emails from people saying, you know, we watch I watched
- 55:43Speaker 5: this with the kids in my class in the morning,
- 55:45Speaker 5: you know, school teachers or in nursing homes, and we
- 55:49Speaker 5: watch your video in the morning. We talk about the horses,
- 55:51Speaker 5: and it is just sometimes we watch it ten times
- 55:54Speaker 5: on a loop to be in nature and to be
- 55:56Speaker 5: around these horses, and we cry and we laugh with joy.
- 56:00Speaker 5: And I sundly realized, Wow, this is something the people
- 56:03Speaker 5: that are on the journey with us there. It's a
- 56:06Speaker 5: way that they can emote, you know, kind of like
- 56:08Speaker 5: a good movie. You know, you want to feel all
- 56:11Speaker 5: those things. And I think they get so attached to
- 56:13Speaker 5: the horses, and when we lose one, for example, they'll
- 56:16Speaker 5: still cry about it, you know. If I mention the
- 56:18Speaker 5: name and it's it's been a beautiful journey for that.
- 56:22Speaker 5: And I sundly realized I had a responsibility, not just
- 56:25Speaker 5: I wasn't just helping horses. We were kind of helping
- 56:27Speaker 5: people get through and me myself, it was like good
- 56:30Speaker 5: for my mental health. So the videos got longer and
- 56:33Speaker 5: the stories got longer, and it just sort of became
- 56:36Speaker 5: more of a thing and grew beyond my wilder streets.
- 56:41Speaker 1: And so when you fundraise on the Instagram or or
- 56:44Speaker 1: your other channels, often is it for a specific horse
- 56:47Speaker 1: like this horse needs this surgery if you want to contribute,
- 56:51Speaker 1: is that the idea.
- 56:52Speaker 5: Often we only have a fundraise when a horse is
- 56:55Speaker 5: coming to us, and we are so incredibly well supported.
- 56:59Speaker 5: I mean, I'm so thankful that people it's really their
- 57:04Speaker 5: way of showing their love for the horses you know,
- 57:06Speaker 5: that inspire them and that they love and care for
- 57:09Speaker 5: and they our supporters have been incredible. So we tend
- 57:12Speaker 5: to fund raised one a horse comes. We rarely have to.
- 57:14Speaker 5: We have a vet fund where we have a platform
- 57:19Speaker 5: called Patreon. Patreon where people go on and you can
- 57:23Speaker 5: be on different tiers, and that's where a lot of
- 57:25Speaker 5: our funds come for for our vet fund, our hay fund,
- 57:28Speaker 5: fencing fund. So that's just things that are generally going on.
- 57:32Speaker 5: But yeah, our vet Belts are massive, you know, because
- 57:35Speaker 5: we take a lot of horses.
- 57:36Speaker 2: You can horses be adopted from you guys.
- 57:42Speaker 5: We have tried very hard to focus on the horses
- 57:45Speaker 5: that we take, being ambassadors for the amount of horses
- 57:49Speaker 5: that are in need, so people will because of us.
- 57:53Speaker 5: You know, I've helped so many people pull horses out
- 57:55Speaker 5: of the slaughter pipeline for them to rescue or from
- 57:58Speaker 5: the BLM coals. I'll help them go there and do
- 58:01Speaker 5: their paperwork and you know, tell them what they need
- 58:04Speaker 5: to do. So we haven't adopted out up until. Like,
- 58:08Speaker 5: what we've done a lot is work with other rescues
- 58:11Speaker 5: that do have adoption arms that are great, and we've
- 58:13Speaker 5: helped them save ten or twenty horses out of the
- 58:16Speaker 5: source of pipe and I think we've rescued about two
- 58:18Speaker 5: hundred and fifty additional horses that then got adopted out
- 58:21Speaker 5: through other rescues. It's just I think I'm not a
- 58:26Speaker 5: very good foster.
- 58:27Speaker 2: I'm not you know, film you feel all the time.
- 58:32Speaker 1: What's amazing about Claire is that she knows every single
- 58:35Speaker 1: one of these horses names by sight. And she told
- 58:39Speaker 1: me that sometimes she'll get it wrong and on the
- 58:41Speaker 1: Instagram videos and people will start correcting her. That's not Snow,
- 58:45Speaker 1: that's that's Cedar.
- 58:47Speaker 5: Yes, totally, and it's extraordinary because I'm like, that's a sorrel,
- 58:51Speaker 5: which is a red horse like in the distance with
- 58:54Speaker 5: a blaze how on. But I think they take it
- 58:57Speaker 5: very seriously, and they're like, you know, that's not Jalapino.
- 58:59Speaker 5: That's so he's like here has one white sock on
- 59:04Speaker 5: his back left, and I'm going, what.
- 59:08Speaker 1: But it is amazing that you know that you can
- 59:10Speaker 1: that you know the names of all those horses.
- 59:13Speaker 5: Yeah, I can't remember the names of any people. But yeah,
- 59:16Speaker 5: Wh'll say, I don't know why. I guess because of
- 59:18Speaker 5: all of the stuff we go through at the beginning
- 59:20Speaker 5: when we take them in, you know, and I named
- 59:22Speaker 5: most of them, which is really fun.
- 59:25Speaker 2: I can bond with them when they come in too.
- 59:28Speaker 3: When you brought when you brought Phoenix home, just you
- 59:33Speaker 3: know how scared Phoenix was and how you coaxed them
- 59:36Speaker 3: into come on in.
- 59:37Speaker 2: It's all right, don't worry. But it's all right, baby,
- 59:39Speaker 2: it's all right.
- 59:40Speaker 3: And finally this, you know, the horse is now healthy
- 59:43Speaker 3: and and has grown, you know, the muscles are back
- 59:46Speaker 3: on its back, you know. And that was then just
- 59:48Speaker 3: in time for that beautify, just in time for Shorty
- 59:51Speaker 3: to show up.
- 59:51Speaker 1: Shorty to show up. Then Shorty named Ghost shows up
- 59:56Speaker 1: and he's.
- 59:57Speaker 2: Like, like, look at me, I've been working out, baby,
- 1:00:03Speaker 2: Let's go for a walk.
- 1:00:05Speaker 1: So sweet, Well, Claire tell anyone who's listening if they
- 1:00:10Speaker 1: want to contribute or first of all, I'm telling you
- 1:00:12Speaker 1: to go to sky Dog Sanctuary the Instagram account. You
- 1:00:16Speaker 1: can also put that into YouTube. You'll see. That's where
- 1:00:19Speaker 1: I saw the Dodo videos, which are very moving. But Claire,
- 1:00:23Speaker 1: for those that are that want to contribute to the
- 1:00:25Speaker 1: Patreon when you tell them where to go to do that.
- 1:00:28Speaker 5: Yeah, So our Patreon is just patreon dot com stroke
- 1:00:33Speaker 5: Skydog Sanctuary. We have a YouTube channel. We also have
- 1:00:37Speaker 5: a website that actually is Skydog ranch dot org and
- 1:00:41Speaker 5: you can donate through that. You can donate through any
- 1:00:43Speaker 5: of our social media platforms, or join us on Patreon
- 1:00:46Speaker 5: where you see a lot of behind the scenes videos
- 1:00:49Speaker 5: and I show a lot on there, and I talk
- 1:00:52Speaker 5: much more openly on Patreon to everyone, and I mean,
- 1:00:57Speaker 5: they're keep their amazing.
- 1:00:59Speaker 1: You went in for a second. I think you meant backslash.
- 1:01:03Speaker 1: Is that what we say, guys, it would be it
- 1:01:05Speaker 1: would be patreon dot com backslash Skydog.
- 1:01:08Speaker 5: Sanctuary, I said, stroke, I did.
- 1:01:11Speaker 1: That's very English of you. We don't say that here.
- 1:01:13Speaker 2: We do say that here, but it means something else.
- 1:01:16Speaker 1: Donald, Please be don't be inappropriate in front.
- 1:01:19Speaker 2: Of I wasn't being inappropriate.
- 1:01:20Speaker 1: We managed to get through the whole episode with stroking.
- 1:01:22Speaker 2: Your ego without stroking your ego trying in front of
- 1:01:28Speaker 2: I wasn't making different.
- 1:01:31Speaker 5: I swear like a sailor, and I was laughing. I
- 1:01:34Speaker 5: watched the last podcast you did, I Think, and you
- 1:01:37Speaker 5: were talking about below Deck, and I was laughing because
- 1:01:40Speaker 5: I think my entire management skills for managing my crew,
- 1:01:44Speaker 5: because I have a chief stew who's my equal manager,
- 1:01:46Speaker 5: and then the equine staff, and then the guys who
- 1:01:49Speaker 5: are kind of the debt team. And I was like,
- 1:01:51Speaker 5: I'm always telling them, you just have to watch Below Deck.
- 1:01:53Speaker 5: You'll understand why.
- 1:01:55Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know if you want to
- 1:01:56Speaker 1: educate your staff to go watch Below Deck because they
- 1:01:59Speaker 1: all get they can hand up with each other encourage.
- 1:02:03Speaker 5: Well, they're on a ranch in the middle of no
- 1:02:05Speaker 5: I know.
- 1:02:05Speaker 1: I'm sure they're all honking up with each other. Anyway.
- 1:02:07Speaker 3: Do you think they're all on farmers dot com Farmers.
- 1:02:11Speaker 1: That would be a good by the way, we should
- 1:02:13Speaker 1: make a below Deck style reality show, but about Claire's staff, it.
- 1:02:19Speaker 5: Would be I don't know, I'd.
- 1:02:23Speaker 1: Sandy, Yeah, you would, you are Sandy. You're a badass woman,
- 1:02:28Speaker 1: Captain Sandy.
- 1:02:29Speaker 3: But you can literally like if you do work as
- 1:02:32Speaker 3: a ranch and you could literally be like, I can
- 1:02:34Speaker 3: go on farmers only dot com because I've always wondered,
- 1:02:37Speaker 3: I've always wondered, what are the qualifications.
- 1:02:40Speaker 2: I know it says farmers.
- 1:02:41Speaker 1: Qualifications are you're down to get up at four in
- 1:02:44Speaker 1: the morning and milk cows as a wife.
- 1:02:47Speaker 2: That is it.
- 1:02:47Speaker 1: Joella is not going to be on farmers only dot com.
- 1:02:51Speaker 2: Be hooking up on farmers only dot com. I hear
- 1:02:53Speaker 2: it's a good hookup place.
- 1:02:55Speaker 1: You've heard through the gravevine in Los Angeles that farmers
- 1:02:58Speaker 1: only it is a good hookups.
- 1:02:59Speaker 5: But you know, if I ever lose my husband for
- 1:03:06Speaker 5: other reason, for some reason, I would go there because
- 1:03:09Speaker 5: they are going to have skills to they'll know what
- 1:03:12Speaker 5: to do.
- 1:03:12Speaker 1: But also clear will you will you please help me
- 1:03:14Speaker 1: explain to Donald that it's about choosing the lifestyle of
- 1:03:18Speaker 1: being in bumble fuck and getting up early and working.
- 1:03:22Speaker 5: Yeah, it is a lifestyle.
- 1:03:23Speaker 1: A typical female or male who's trying to meet someone
- 1:03:27Speaker 1: on there who's not in that lifestyle Farmer's only. Yeah,
- 1:03:31Speaker 1: we're also taught, Okay, let's say you're a nice Jewish gallon.
- 1:03:38Speaker 3: No, let's say you're on j date and you're not Jewish.
- 1:03:40Speaker 3: Get the fuck off, right, that's what you're saying.
- 1:03:42Speaker 1: No, I didn't say that. I think you're allowed to
- 1:03:44Speaker 1: not be Jewish on JD. I don't know the rules, Daniel.
- 1:03:46Speaker 2: Good. But Farmers only strictly for farmers can you.
- 1:03:48Speaker 1: Be non Jewish on JAD eight? Or do they check
- 1:03:51Speaker 1: your foreskin? Can you donald Farmers only? You wouldn't want
- 1:03:58Speaker 1: to match with someone and be like, Hey, I really
- 1:04:01Speaker 1: am crazy about you. But the whole milking cows in
- 1:04:03Speaker 1: the morning thing. I live in Manhattan, Oh.
- 1:04:08Speaker 5: My god, it's too funny to imagine. I might have
- 1:04:10Speaker 5: to go on there just to find out what's going on.
- 1:04:12Speaker 5: Should die?
- 1:04:14Speaker 1: I don't know, Claire, you should just do a little
- 1:04:16Speaker 1: recon for us and come back. Well, all right, Dane,
- 1:04:18Speaker 1: go ahead, it's going on.
- 1:04:19Speaker 4: I'm thrilled to report that on jay D eight, individuals
- 1:04:22Speaker 4: do not have to be Jewish in order.
- 1:04:24Speaker 1: To join Dale.
- 1:04:25Speaker 4: You could join and on Farmers only. It isn't just
- 1:04:28Speaker 4: for farmers, it's for anyone interested in living a more
- 1:04:31Speaker 4: rural lifestyle.
- 1:04:33Speaker 1: Well, let me tell you something you're gonna fall in
- 1:04:35Speaker 1: love with someone who's gonna be like you're you're down
- 1:04:37Speaker 1: to milk those cows at five thirty?
- 1:04:38Speaker 5: Right?
- 1:04:39Speaker 1: Like what now, that's my am I supposed to end
- 1:04:46Speaker 1: up at five thirty if I was up till two
- 1:04:48Speaker 1: am watching Below Deck men.
- 1:04:52Speaker 5: Well, maybe that's what below Deck down Under is all about.
- 1:04:55Speaker 5: Maybe they Yeah, I don't know what they're doing on them.
- 1:04:58Speaker 1: They're in Australia. Claire's trying to make sexual innuendo. Donald
- 1:05:03Speaker 1: Donald has a bad impression influenced.
- 1:05:06Speaker 2: Let's take a break.
- 1:05:07Speaker 1: We'll be right back after these fine words.
- 1:05:16Speaker 3: This segment of Fake Doctor's Real Friends is brought to
- 1:05:18Speaker 3: you by T Mobile. When you need great coverage, especially
- 1:05:22Speaker 3: when enjoying your favorite podcast, check out t Mobile.
- 1:05:26Speaker 1: Okay, today, Joel pulled a couple of fan letters that
- 1:05:29Speaker 1: she's gonna read to us now.
- 1:05:31Speaker 6: So we get a ton of letters that are not
- 1:05:34Speaker 6: asking us for anything.
- 1:05:35Speaker 2: They don't want, they don't want to try to be
- 1:05:37Speaker 2: on the show.
- 1:05:38Speaker 6: Letter Joelle sharing some love, and I was like, how
- 1:05:41Speaker 6: do we honor these people who are just sending us
- 1:05:43Speaker 6: in these such lovely thoughts? So here we go. Our
- 1:05:46Speaker 6: first letter comes from Matt mulvaney. It's from the UK.
- 1:05:49Speaker 1: He says, Hey, not Mick mulvaney, right, not mickt.
- 1:05:54Speaker 5: Okay.
- 1:05:54Speaker 6: So this is actually a question, but it's a fun question.
- 1:05:57Speaker 2: I have a question that I've been wondering for a while.
- 1:05:59Speaker 2: This is the question. I'm listening.
- 1:06:00Speaker 1: All right, looks like at the beginning, like you're looking
- 1:06:03Speaker 1: at your Farmer's only account.
- 1:06:04Speaker 2: How did you know?
- 1:06:05Speaker 1: Ahead? Oh my god, Donald Donald's looking down like he's
- 1:06:09Speaker 1: signing him for farmers Own. All right, go ahead, you ill? Sorry?
- 1:06:12Speaker 5: Okay.
- 1:06:12Speaker 6: So the beginning of the series, JD has the apartment,
- 1:06:16Speaker 6: but when Carla and Turk move in, it's JD that
- 1:06:18Speaker 6: has to move out.
- 1:06:20Speaker 3: Why, well, no, JD and Turk didn't. JD and Turk
- 1:06:24Speaker 3: have the apartment right now? JD has the apartment, but
- 1:06:27Speaker 3: you did.
- 1:06:27Speaker 1: Why Why don't y'all move out and find a new place?
- 1:06:29Speaker 1: Why do you evictim JD?
- 1:06:31Speaker 3: They don't. JD decides to move out. He's living with
- 1:06:35Speaker 3: them for the longest.
- 1:06:36Speaker 1: Yeah, but why can't they get their own place? JD's
- 1:06:38Speaker 1: got a nice apartment.
- 1:06:41Speaker 2: Yo, That I don't know.
- 1:06:42Speaker 3: JD decided to move out on his own, man, that
- 1:06:44Speaker 3: I do not understand.
- 1:06:47Speaker 1: All right, Well, you don't have an answer for you, but.
- 1:06:49Speaker 2: We because it's good for storytelling.
- 1:06:51Speaker 1: Whenever the answer is donald and I didn't come up
- 1:06:53Speaker 1: with it, so there you go. Go ahead, Joelle.
- 1:06:56Speaker 6: All right, so our next question comes from Mary Chandler.
- 1:07:00Speaker 6: Mary says, Hey, Joelle, I just want to say thanks.
- 1:07:03Speaker 6: I've been listening to the podcast since the very beginning.
- 1:07:05Speaker 6: I was religiously tuning in every day a new episode dropped.
- 1:07:08Speaker 6: But then in December twenty twenty one, my dad passed
- 1:07:11Speaker 6: away from COVID, and I struggled a lot. The podcast
- 1:07:14Speaker 6: is so funny and silly and happy, so I didn't
- 1:07:17Speaker 6: listen for a while because I didn't feel like I.
- 1:07:19Speaker 5: Could be happy.
- 1:07:20Speaker 6: I'm doing better now, and this summer I've been frantically
- 1:07:22Speaker 6: trying to catch up with all the episodes. I'm on
- 1:07:24Speaker 6: seven oh four right now. I quit my bar industry
- 1:07:27Speaker 6: job in order to help out my mom since my
- 1:07:29Speaker 6: dad passed away, so suddenly I left behind coworkers that
- 1:07:32Speaker 6: were like family, and I missed them a lot. Listening
- 1:07:34Speaker 6: to the four of you helps fill a little of
- 1:07:36Speaker 6: that void. I just wanted to say that I appreciate
- 1:07:38Speaker 6: the friendship you for have.
- 1:07:40Speaker 2: It's been healing for me.
- 1:07:41Speaker 6: It's incredible that you all met and care about each other.
- 1:07:44Speaker 6: It really comes through in the show. I could go
- 1:07:46Speaker 6: on and on, but I'm trying to be as brief
- 1:07:47Speaker 6: as possible. Thank you again.
- 1:07:48Speaker 2: Cheers Mary, Mary.
- 1:07:50Speaker 1: That's so sweet.
- 1:07:51Speaker 2: Mary.
- 1:07:51Speaker 1: I love you, Mary. It's exactly. I love you, Mary.
- 1:07:54Speaker 1: I love you Mary. I love you.
- 1:07:56Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 1:07:57Speaker 1: I think Mary, I love you. I think if you
- 1:07:58Speaker 1: asked the four of us what we would make us feel,
- 1:08:01Speaker 1: the warmest in our hearts would be what Mary's saying.
- 1:08:04Speaker 1: The idea that we could make you laugh when you're
- 1:08:06Speaker 1: feeling sad, The idea that we could bring a giggle
- 1:08:09Speaker 1: to your day or your car ride or whatever it is,
- 1:08:13Speaker 1: is all we all really want to do.
- 1:08:15Speaker 2: That's all we want to do. He's not lying.
- 1:08:17Speaker 3: When I'm loud and when I'm making all of this
- 1:08:19Speaker 3: noise and all of that stuff. It's really for you, guys,
- 1:08:21Speaker 3: I swear all my life for real, I really do
- 1:08:25Speaker 3: want you, guys to enjoy your day and be happy
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- 1:08:37Speaker 3: We understand the responsibility that we have and you know
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- 1:08:45Speaker 3: with us.
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- 1:08:50Speaker 1: hopefully some laughs and some hopefully occasionally some thoughtfulness like
- 1:08:54Speaker 1: our guests today, and that's all we want to do.
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- 1:09:24Speaker 1: Claire Staples, You're an incredible human being. You are inspiration
- 1:09:27Speaker 1: and I love that. I am so moved also that
- 1:09:30Speaker 1: this part of this spark came out of your recovery
- 1:09:34Speaker 1: and wanting to be of service to our country and humanity.
- 1:09:40Speaker 1: And I just think you're an extraordinary person. You know,
- 1:09:43Speaker 1: when they do those CNN Extraordinary people things.
- 1:09:46Speaker 5: I think we should be abmitting.
- 1:09:48Speaker 1: This is our version. You're our first You're our first
- 1:09:52Speaker 1: candidate for it's way more fun. Yeah, By the way
- 1:09:56Speaker 1: Donald that we should do that. We should have extraordinary
- 1:09:58Speaker 1: people like Claire on and then we'll do our CNN
- 1:10:00Speaker 1: version of Extraordinary Person of the Year. Yes, I love it,
- 1:10:05Speaker 1: but you're the first guest. You're no offense, no offense to,
- 1:10:09Speaker 1: no offense to Cody. But uh, you did.
- 1:10:14Speaker 2: Great by most Americans, Cody.
- 1:10:15Speaker 1: But yeah, Cody, we we love you, but you're not
- 1:10:18Speaker 1: a candidate for Special Human.
- 1:10:20Speaker 2: Of the Year. And it's only because you don't like
- 1:10:22Speaker 2: Taylor Swift.
- 1:10:23Speaker 1: Yes, that's one of the main reasons that you can
- 1:10:25Speaker 1: everyone well, believe it or not, Cody, Cody's.
- 1:10:29Speaker 2: I didn't like Taylor Swift for six days.
- 1:10:32Speaker 1: So if you know this, uh, Clara, but the haters
- 1:10:36Speaker 1: are gonna hate, hate, hate, hate.
- 1:10:38Speaker 2: Hate, tell it. I told us that, and it was
- 1:10:42Speaker 2: I always forget what the haters are going to do.
- 1:10:44Speaker 1: And I know they're gonna mind.
- 1:10:46Speaker 5: Yeah, they're gonna hate.
- 1:10:48Speaker 1: Shake it off and everybody, everybody, We're gonna end on
- 1:10:53Speaker 1: that note. If the haters hate, shake it up.
- 1:10:59Speaker 7: Five six stories that show we made about a bunch
- 1:11:05Speaker 7: of talks and nurses in Canada who love me.
- 1:11:08Speaker 1: I said, here's the stories that all should know.
- 1:11:13Speaker 7: So gather round you here, our gather round you here,
- 1:11:18Speaker 7: our scotty
- 1:11:19Speaker 1: My show is, and no